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| How America united to vote for Bara |
| The day began with long queues that snaked for miles around polling stations all across America in an early sign that the fight was over.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-November-2008
1:37:5 AM |
| The day began with long queues that snaked for miles around polling stations all across America in an early sign that the fight was over.
By nightfall, Barack Obama had won the popular vote, with a nearly 6 point lead.
An American public eager to overcome their worst economic crisis and resurrect the country's battered image was driven out of its political apathy for the first time in years.
Obama's message in the last days of his campaign was to "get out the vote". And how!
# According to data collected during Tuesday's polls, he won the under 30 vote by 66 percent. Higher than in any previous election
# 71 percent of first time voters rallied around Obama. Only 29 percent went to McCain
# It was also the first time African American voters have been mobilized to such an unprecedented extent. Obama won 95 percent of the black vote. McCain won 4 percent.
# Hispanic voters, traditionally Republican, crossed the political divide. 66 percent of them voted for Obama. 31 percent went to McCain. In 2004 they had voted overwhelmingly for George Bush.
Professor David Epstein, Department of Political Science, Columbia University says: "When we wake up tomorrow America will be amazed, transformed, that we have our first African American president ."
As Obama's campaign reached out to voters across racial, ethnic and class lines, he won state after state -- even the so-called bellweather or swing states fell away from the Republicans -- one by one.
# The first big win: Pennsylvania -- Democrat for the last few elections voted for Hillary in the primaries. And John McCain had been trying as recently as a few days ago to win over the state.
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